Morning journal and courier., 1887-02-22
THE CHARITY RAIL-

bered with pleasure by the spectator. The
decorations of the hall were very tasteful
and with their aid the opera house seemed
like fairy scene, especially when the festivi-
ties were at their height. The decorations
were lavish to a degree of magnifcence.
Amid the strains of music and tropical
plants and elegance on every hand one could
well think himself soaring above to realm
that was unreal and fanciful. The stage
again resembled drawing room, the scenes
being placed against the walls. From the
| top to where the curtain is drawn were fast
| ened red and white banners, which came
down and along in half circle to tie
extreme rear of the stage, forming beauti-
| fully embellished wall overhead the dancers.
| To the extreme rear close to the wall were
| the five temporary boxes. Tn v were close
| together with slight low partition between
| them, the whole with a covering of red,
| white and blue. There was predominance
| of the red, nearly the whole that was visible
being of that color. The banners of white
ran around tbs lower and inside portions OF
the boxes. A large rug covered most of the
| Hoor of each box.
In front of the boxes WAS fine collection
| of tropical plants, and one going into the
| boxes would think he was in a garden where
| flowers and plants were CT an abundance.
| Ia the extreme right corner was large flag
| hung from above. In the center of the
stage, just back of the permanent boxes, was
a unique set of gas jets trimmed with smi,
lax, representing in large letters the word
| CHARITY" Beneath were suspended three
| bird cages. From way up to the very top of
| the proscenium and from its center stretched
| forth high over the parquet a covering of
| red, white and blue, fastened together. These
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neared the gallery front, when they
were fastened on the inside. On the front
of the gallery, in the space underneath where
the taperings from the proscenium end, was a
dressof blue and from its center extending half
way down to the dress circle, were little cages
containing birds. Three single strips, one
of red, one of white and one of blue, reached
from the top of the proscenium to the very
top of the gallery boxes. Up and down in
the little space back of the boxes and just in
front of where the curtain descends were
long pieces of blue. From the spaces be-
tween where the fastened strips of red, white
and blue came to end in the gallery front
started strips of like width, which gradually
came to point, and were twined around to
the lower portion of the posts in the dress
circle. The front of the dress circle was
draped in blue, with a background of red
Embellishing its center was bronze mastif's
head, and on each side, about midway
between the head and the private boxes,
was a bronze PLAGUE. Another pretty
display of the gallery above were the rustic
baskets suspended from it. Foliage had
grown over the sides of the baskets, en-
twined itself around them, and from their
center peeped little flowers, just budded.
The top permanent boxes on each side had
a drapery of white and blue, fastened at the
center with bronze PLAGUE. The raiment
of the dress circle boxes was in strips of
yellow and black, and where they centered
below at the division of the stage boxes was
small bronze mirror. The boxes were al
most surrounded with lovely tropical plants,
and around the whole inside of
the partition between the par
quet and the parquet circle were
plants and at each entrance to the dancing
floor from the parquet circle was an archway
of two large plants. On each the right and
left side of the parquet circle and next to
the permanent was temporary box. The
seats had been taken out temporary floor
built and the box curtained off From the
private boxes were hung baskets of flowers
and cages containing birds, and extending
from the private box next to the stage in the
dress circle extended the Grays' standard
bearers.
The whirl of carriages was incessant from
half past eight to ten. The dancing began
at $50. There was no grand march. For an
pIcCcoulIS luOIO WAS q LILO SOA-
cert The music for the night was by Bern
STEMS, 25 pieces, and the American band,
% pieces. In the first gallery there were
about 300 spectators. The floor was well
covered with the throngs of dancers and the
gay and bright scene, the fine music, the
lovely young faces and beautiful toilets, the
decorations of the house and the general hap
piness of the hour, made up an occasion
which will long be recalled with pleasure by
the thrOnps participating.
Among those present were the following:
Hon. Colin NJ. 1ngersoll, ex-Mayor Lewis and
daughter Matte, ex-Mayor Holcomb, wife
and daughter, Mayor York, Rev. I. R. Ba-
con and wife, Senator and Mrs. Graham,
General and Mrs. George Fl. Ford, Mr.. Will
liam Wallace of Ansonia and daughter, Sec
rotary of State L. NJ. Hubbard and wife,
Postmaster English and wife, James Eng
fish, Mr.. E. Hayes Trowbridge, jr., Captain
G. H. Townshend, o. M. Shepard, wife and
daughter, Councilman Martin and wife,
Mr., H. H. Bunnell, Mr.. Charles
Redfeld of Madison, Mr.. Frank Bushnell, of
Bushnell & Dewell, and wife; Mr.. Lewis D.
Chidsey and wife, Superintendent Henney of
the Consolidated road and wife, Mr.. George
E. Dudley and wife, Mr.. E. E. Stevens and
wife, Mr.. and Mrs. A. 7. Lundberg, Major Lee,
Manager Wykes of Hatch & Sons, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. M. LOOMS, son and daughter,
DR.. and Mrs. G. A. Lindsey, Lieutenant
Luzerne A. Ludington and wife, G. NJ.
LOOMS and wife, Prof. Loomis, G. B. Bun
nell and wife, ex-Councilman William A.
Beers and wife, Charles K. Foster, J. j.
Phelps, Major H. II. Strong and wife, ex-
Police Commissioner Franklin H. Hart
J. B. Tuttle, Mr.. and Mrs. Philo
S. Bennett, Mrs. Gus Traeger, Thomas For
syth, jr., Miss Mamie Eaton, William P
futile, of Augur & futile, and wife, Fire
Commissioner D. A. Blakeslee and wife, Mrs
and Miss Toby, Brooklyn; F. Brooks, of
Brooks & Co, and wife, George A.
G. Ford S' co r Ms6o0p T WpSsn
Of Bridgeport, Ericsson Bushnell, Edwin
Porter, Mr.. and Mrs. White of Waterbury,
Town Clerk Charles Hemingway, East Ha-
ven William H. Mosley, Charles T. Maltby,
President Frank Bradley of the Yale Ma
tional bank, Mr.. and Mrs. S. E. Dlbble, the
Co., H. H. Peck the bookseller, Frank Sew
ard and the Misses Seward, DR.. Frank H.
Whittemore and wife, ex-Lieutenant Draine,
Mr.. William H. Brown and mother,
Attorney George D. Watrous, F. A.
Gilbert, DR.. E S. Gaylord and wife, Coroner
Eli Mix and wife, E. S. Beecher, B. G. Lake
and wife, Mr.. Walker of firm of Monson &
Carpenter, Arthur B. Wright, Harry Ensign,
Mr.. and Mrs. Truman S. Foote, N. G. Os-
born, John H. Phillips, ex-Police Commits
sioner Sheldon, DIR. Barnett of West Haven,
Mr.. Hoffman of West Haven, Chas A. White,
Senator and Mrs. James G. Gallagher
Albert DeBussey, Seymour G. Loomis Ed
ward Hall, William Hall, L. B. Clark, Ed
ward q. Beecher, Miss Lily Hodgson, Dr.
Purdy Lindsey, Mr.. and Mrs. James q. En-
giish, Frederick Minor, Mr.. and Mrs. E. L.
Thompson, Mr.. and Mrs. Wooster P.
Ensign, G. S. Leete, Cashier Trow-
bridge of Milford, E. S. Kimberly
and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Romantic Wells,
Joseph T. Fitch, Judge Sheldon, Col. Simeon
J. Fox, Gen. E. E. Bradley, DIR. A. E. Win
chell and wife, Col. Nicely of Bolton & Nicely,
Alderman J. N. States, Mr.. Law, of the firm
of Booth & Law, and daughters, Mr.. Thomp-
son of Gilbert & Thompson, ex-senator
Carlos Smith, DIR. Robert Ives, Samuel Lloyd,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Craig, H. H.
Bunne11 of Bunnell & Scranton, w.
G. Barton, wife and daughter, Miss
Mamie Bassett, Mrs. L. w. Dudley, Miss
Lucy jackson, Miss Annie Bradley, Miss
Della Beck, Miss Ella Wells, Miss Nichols,
Mrs. Bolton, Joseph T. Whittelsey, Miss Cath
crime Sherry, Miss Carl Dudley, Miss Anna
Treat, Mrs. H. K Lines, Miss Elizabeth B.
Sheldon, Miss Annie Punderford, S. Fred
Strong, s. F. Easterbrook, George M. Beers,
Mrs. Professor Mark Bailey, Mr. Edward
Sargent, Mr. George Dix, Otto Scheeifer,
Samuel Beers, Fred. Fl. Waldron, Herbert
Augur, Eli Whitney, jr., Charles Nichols
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